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La Vende

CHAPTER VII
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"At any rate, they deserve no protection at my hands." "You have probably eaten their bread and drank their wine.

You say, indeed, you have lived long in this rambling chateau, and have fought side by side with this hot-headed young brigand.

Bethink you, my friend, you are angry now, but it may turn your stomach, when you are cool, to see the blood of those you know so well running like water; besides, you are taking but an unlikely road to the heart of the girl you say you love.

No one has heard your plot but myself: I advise you to abandon it; if you do so, I will forget that I have heard it.

You are angry now; go home and sleep on it." "Sleep on it! I have slept on it these three weeks.


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